At a time when the political atmosphere in Andhra Pradesh is getting heated up following the announcement of schedule for general elections to the state assembly and Lok Sabha, there has been an unusual silence from Kapu strongman and former minister Mudragada Padmanabham.
YS Vivekananda Reddy, brother of late chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy passed away today morning at his home in Pulivendula due a cardiac arrest.
Andhra Pradesh's ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Thursday night announced its first list of candidates for next month's Assembly elections, containing 126 names.
Popular actor Pawan Kalyan's Jana Sena on Thursday launched his party's campaign for next month's elections to Andhra Pradesh Assembly and Lok Sabha, promising Rs 5,000 pension to farmers, KG to PG free education and 10 lakh jobs in five years.
The political equations in Andhra Pradesh are undergoing rapid changes with every passing day, as leaders of a political party are taking quick decision to defect to the royal party, after realising that they are not going to get the tickets in their original party.
The Congress party, which has already lost its sheen in Andhra Pradesh post bifurcation of combined state, is becoming further empty with the exodus of its remaining leaders into other parties.
Bojjala Sudheer Reddy, son of Srikalahasti MLA Bojjala Gopalakrishna Reddy, has reportedly been given the green signal to contest the 2019 election.
A strange situation is prevailing in Andhra Pradesh politics in the ongoing general elections.
Jana Sena is the first political party in Andhra Pradesh to announce the list of candidates for assembly and parliament seats for the elections 2019.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is said to be in second thoughts in admitting former joint director of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and retired IPS officer V V Lakshminarayna into the party.
Finally, senior Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh minister for higher education Ganta Srinivasa Rao managed to retain his hold in the party by bringing pressure on party president and chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu to retain him in his Bhimili assembly constituency in Viisakhapatnam district.
With the Election Commission announcing the election schedule giving hardly three weeks’ time for the parties for campaigning, YSR Congress party president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy cancelled his plans to take up bus yatra for electioneering.
After undergoing several pulls and pressures and assessing all permutations and combinations, Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is understood to have decided to field his son Nara Lokesh from Mangalagiri assembly constituency in Guntur district.
Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu is under tremendous pressure these days. Not because, he is facing difficulty in selection of candidates for the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in the state.
The much awaited announcement of YSRCP candidates for upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha polls in AP has been postponed to March 16.
